Ferguson shooting: America's social issues 'root from poverty'

Sam Fulwood, senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress discusses
poverty rates in the US

By Leon Siciliano, video source Bloomberg

10:29AM BST 19 Aug 2014

Sam Fulwood, senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress says that, "poverty is at the root of much of our social issues, poverty and race conjoined makes things flare up as we have seen it.

"Unless we're prepared to attack poverty in our local communities and urban areas we're going to have these things bubbling up to the surface, sometimes erupting in a volcanic way, and we will continue to scratch our head and try to understand why this happened when indeed it is not that complicated".

Mr Fulwood spoke to Bloomberg following continued riots as a result of 18-year-old Michael Brown being shot dead in broad daylight by a white police officer on 9th August in Ferguson, US.